Capirindita village

Saturday the group left for the nearby village of Capirindita to minister with the cousin (Angela) of one of our team leaders who has been living in that village ministering as the only white person in the tribe for the last 3 years. I stayed in Villa Montes for an extra two days as we had 2 ladies sick/exhausted so I stayed behind with them to rest. It was good, a good opportunity for me to spend extra time with Jesus, journalling, spending time in the Word. On Monday we set off to join the team in Capirindita. This was an interesting time, where most of the ministry was spiritually focused. There was some weird stuff going on in that village.

The village had been suffering a fish drought (a major source of food for them) for the last couple of years so one afternoon we went down to the river to pray and prophesy that the waters would once again be full of fish.

The river we prayed over to be filled fish

It was interesting learning from Angela all the cultural ways of the people, what their beliefs were, how they viewed Jesus, etc. At different times groups of us went on foot with her to the surrounding villages where she ministers. On the last evening (Tuesday) the village had a despedida (farewell) service for us. It was so fun, we sat outside and they sang worship songs to us in Guarani, we say in Spanish together and then we sang to them in English and Macua, an African language which is spoken in Mozambique which is where we attended our missionary training school. Great fun! We also preached and taught them about how in the spirit world Jesus is bigger than any evil spirit and that when they had problems in the spirit world all they need to do was cry out to Jesus and He would deliver them. As most of us on the team have testimonies of this we shared some with them and they were greatly encouraged.